Li De's original name is Otto Braun, and he is a member of the German Communist Party. In 1932, he was sent to the Soviet area of China as a military consultant. During his time in China, Li De also found a Chinese wife, Xiao Yuehua. However, the two of them had not had a happy marriage and often quarreled and started fighting. Even during Xiao Yuehua's pregnancy, the situation did not change.
In addition, Li De secretly fell in love with dancer Li Lilian when his wife was pregnant. Therefore, the angry Xiao Yuehua soon divorced Li De.
1938, Li De and Li Lian got married. After marriage, the two of them had a good relationship. However, one day a year later, Li De suddenly received a notice of returning to China. The situation was urgent, and Li De could only kiss his wife goodbye and left China...
Li De left, what should the newlywed wife who is deeply in love and affectionate? And what should we do with the young children born to him and his ex-wife?
1. Talking about military affairs on paper
1932, Li De was sent to China as a military adviser to the Communist Party. After coming to China, Li De worked very seriously. His house was full of maps, and various bunkers, trenches, etc. were marked in detail on the map, and he was studying combat policies every day.
However, there is a big difference between the map and the actual situation, so the combat plan formulated by Li De often cannot be well implemented in actual combat. In order to win the war, soldiers often need to temporarily change the combat plan.
Li De was very angry about this situation. Because the military commander at that time unconditionally supported Li De, he often criticized some random soldiers indiscriminately, which aroused great dissatisfaction among the soldiers.
Bo Gu trusts Li De for a reason. Li De was once a top student at Military Academy and has published many articles on military theory. Not only that, Li De was eloquent and even if many generals had correct combat policies, they were often at a disadvantage because they were not as eloquent as him.
Whenever war breaks out, Li De always writes and draws on the map based on the information on the telegram, and thus formulates policies and policies, which is tantamount to talking about it on paper.
In fact, Li De had never been exposed to war before, and the so-called excellent military articles were just theoretical.
Once, he ordered the soldiers to move in a straight line, but the straight line on the map is actually surrounded by mountains, and the soldiers need to waste a lot of time and climb over many mountains to complete the transfer task. This also led to the loss of many positions in succession.
In 1934, the Kuomintang’s millions of troops encircled and suppressed our army, and the “anti-encirclement and suppression” failed. Red Army was forced to start Long March . Li De is the only person in Western countries to finish the journey through the long journey.
1935 Zunyi Conference , Li De, who lost his military command, publicly expressed his support for Mao Zedong's strategic policy many times, effectively preventing the division of the Red Army and stabilizing the situation at that time.
at that time, the leader of the Red Fourth Front Army insisted on moving south, and sent the Chief of Staff Lite to persuade everyone. After Li De learned about it, he hurriedly came to argue with Li Te, and the two of them once developed to the point of fist and kicking each other.
After Chairman Mao arrived, he first persuaded the two of them, and then talked with Li Te about going south or going north. Unexpectedly, Li Te was excited and almost attacked Chairman Mao. Li De hurried forward and hugged Li Te. Li De was tall and strong, which scared everyone for a moment. It was not until Chairman Mao spoke that Li De let go.
This incident quickly changed everyone's attitude towards Li De, and General Peng praised him many times. On the other hand, this shows that although Li De’s military talent is not good, his belief in communism has never changed.
2. Two excellent wives
Li De once had a short marriage in Germany. He was in his 30s after coming to China, but he never considered personal issues.
However, as an open-minded Westerner, Li De also made a lot of jokes when he came to China.
Once, Li De saw a beautiful female cadre and expressed his love to her in public. The female cadre scolded him in anger and shy manner.Another time, Li De and a cadre couple joked, using German to tell the woman that she liked her. Li De didn't expect that the woman's husband could understand German, and immediately said in German: "Please respect yourself!"
After these things, the central leaders also felt that this older young man could no longer be single. Minister of Women Li Jianzhen took on this glorious and arduous task.
Li Jianzhen was in a dilemma. After all, people's thoughts were not so open at that time, and most people could not accept a foreigner. In the end, Li Jianzhen had no choice but to find the female cadre Xiao Yuehua, but Xiao Yuehua expressed his unwillingness as soon as he heard this. Li Jianzhen had no choice but to say, "This is for the revolution, this is for the work!"
Xiao Yuehua had no choice but to agree to this "revolutionary marriage" for the sake of revolutionary work.
Li De and Xiao Yuehua were not happy after marriage. Li De disliked Xiao Yuehua's boring and unconscionable style, and Xiao Yuehua despised Li De's irritable temper and open-minded thoughts. The two quarreled constantly, even fists and feet. Xiao Yuehua applied for divorce many times, but because she was pregnant, the divorce had to be temporarily suspended.
At this moment, Li De met dancer Li Lilian. Li Lilian is good at singing and dancing, smart and beautiful, and proficient in German. She hit it off with Li De at first sight, had a great time and fell in love soon.
Li De soon divorced Xiao Yuehua and married Li Lilian. After marriage, the two of them were harmonious and very loving. However, this kind of happy life is only a short year.
A year later, Li De received a telegram, saying that the Communist International asked him to return to the Soviet Union. Time is urgent, and Li Lilian has no time to apply for a visa, so she can only watch her husband leave. After leaving, the two of them never met again.
After her husband left, although Li Lilian was very sad, she still worked hard for her career. Since then, she not only achieved great achievements on the dance stage, but also held important positions in the Women's Federation. Later, Li Lilian met and fell in love with a writer and lived a very happy life.
As for Li De's ex-wife, Xiao Yuehua, who achieved even greater success, After the founding of New China, he served as a senior leading cadre in Hunan Province and a member of the CPPCC for many times, and was awarded the rank of colonel in 1960.
Li De returned to the Soviet Union and worked for a few years at the Communist International, and then returned to his hometown of Germany. His book "Chronicles of China" detailed what he saw and heard in China in recent years, and gave high praise to the Red Army's Long March.
In 1974, Li De died in Bulgaria .
Looking back on Li De's life, he has been engaged in military theory research, and his identity in China is just an advisor. However, because the top leader at that time was too dependent on him, he was stubborn and blindly arrogant, causing great mistakes to the Chinese revolution. As for Li De in his later years, he also deeply realized his mistakes and apologized for the serious consequences he had caused many times.
